Example sentences of "may be [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Schoolchildren may be maypole dancing or in the procession in fancy dress , local groups and societies enter floats , others may be involved in the fund-raising events that take place throughout the year or senior citizens may be invited to the ‘ old folks tea and treat ’ ( which takes place on the Monday ) , organised by the maypole committee and an important part of the May weekend . |
| 2 | Most of these processes will be problem processes , but some may be operating system processes , such as one reading job descriptions from a card reader into a job queue on disc . |
| 3 | In all cases , the bones are protected from weathering , but there may be further breakage or attrition if secondary transport or trampling occurs , and there may be surface corrosion of the bone in acid ( or highly alkaline ) conditions . |
| 4 | The binder is not always disclosed but may be gum arabic . |
| 5 | Now the boundary may be a sea boundary , it may be land boundary , it may be an air boundary because the states claim a control over erm particular physical structures . |
| 6 | The size of commercially produced models for nurse education may be life size or greater . |
| 7 | A high proportion of these workers may be part time . |
| 8 | There may be train service alterations at weekends . |
| 9 | What I 'm planning to do is to put them back in the order , colleagues could you settle down please , I 'm planning to put them back on the agenda in the order that they fell off , and er , hopefully , the first opportunity in that connection may be Wednesday afternoon , but I need to have a discussion with colleagues about that , but I 'll certainly let you know at the first available opportunity . |
| 10 | Now this phrase strictly controlled erm I I I wanted to ask it myself because I you know trying to push it through to what it actually means I think the county council if you like has taken it at what may be face value and said well strictly controlled must mean something . |
| 11 | In this case planning permission is necessary , and there may be zombie difficulty in getting approval if the visual appearance of the building is substantially changed . |
| 12 | However , it takes time and effort and the action shown in the close-up may have changed or stopped by the time the wide shot begins , so there may be action matching problems . |
| 13 | Chicken weed ( Stellaria media ) , All Hail or siderites ( This may be All Heal ( see earlier ) or may be Galeopsis tetrahit ) , Sea Pinck ( Armeria maritima ) , and Tormentil ( Potentilla erecta ) . |
| 14 | From Lewis are listed Birch , Hazel ( Corylus avellana ) , Nettle , Reed ( probably Phragmites australis ) , Golden Rod ( Solidago virgaurea ) and All Heal ( may be Stachys arvensis ) . |
| 15 | The team member from department A may be team leader ( eg. if A was the Production Department , and its member was able to gain an operational overview of the team 's activities ) : he would then be in a subordinate position in the organisation chart to the Head of Department B but his superior within the project team . |
| 16 | What may be discomfort glare to the normally sighted may well be disability glare to the visually handicapped . |
| 17 | The compression figures , whilst not particularly low , suggest that it may be camshaft wear . |
| 18 | Even where new activities constitute a separate use within the planning unit , the new use may be de minimis in planning terms . |
| 19 | For example , in urban regeneration the local authority 's objective may be job creation , the objective of central government may be the reduction of crime , the contractor 's objective may be profit from construction , the developer 's objective may be profit from selling on a let facility , and the operator 's objective may be operating profits . |